This remnant will be replaced soon. The FAQ is back, with a new design! What is 'Demand'? "Demand", the last track on Hoist, ends with a tape of Split Open and Melt live, which builds in intensity until a crash very similar to the start of "And So To Bed" from early four-track projects, followed by a mix (halved, front-to-back) of two versions of Phish performing "Yerushalem Shel Zahiv" (in Hebrew, and roughly translated "Jeruselem, City of Gold"). As Mike explained in an interview [source unknown]: That's actually a live jam that was edited onto the album, and it's a good synopsis of what the band is about. The song starts out with a [studio-recorded] fugue-like thing Trey had written, which is like a launching pad; that part was pretty much memorized, which is the other end of the spectrum from not knowing what you're going to play. We're playing all this written music--the disciplined, ritual part--trying to remember fingerings and doing all sorts of left-brain stuff, and it sort of builds up. Then there's the jam, which is really just three bars of 4/4 plus a bar of 9/8. We were out on the road, and our jams hadn't been good for about a tour and a half, but suddenly something clicked and we found this new way of doing it--and it ended up on the end of Hoist. "...we want brilliant moments as much as the fans. It's selfishness, but it's a rush. That said, you don't spend your time trying to make the crowd go \"Woo!\" The intent is to have something genuine happen and not worry how anybody is going to react." -- Trey Anastasio, New York Post 1/1/99 This page last updated January 24, 2007. All contents © 1992-2007 Ellis Godard. All rights reserved.